Tag: CAC

“If you do not understand White Supremacy (Racism) – what it is, and how it works – everything else that you understand, will only confuse you.” –Neely Fuller Jr. I have found myself in the middle of what I would call an all-out war against people of color in Cuyahoga County. I have been learning the city’s history on racism. […]

Cuyahoga Arts and Culture’s abrupt termination of its Creative Workforce Fellowship last fall, and its plan to substitute it with a different program providing greater “public benefit,” have elicited a range of passionate responses from members of Cleveland’s arts community and others. While some outsiders see this as unfortunate bickering, it has opened a window on a much larger issue. […]

Wednesday morning—a few hours before about 60 artists would gather at the Happy Dog’s Euclid Tavern location to talk about Cuyahoga Arts and Culture’s individual artist grants–Zygote Press director Liz Maugans asked me what was my greatest concern about the controversy at hand. For those who have not been following, the controversy is over a proposed new direction for CAC’s […]

After two hours of public comment–which included impassioned statements from leaders of the arts policy community, as well as more than three-dozen artists and administrators–the Board of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture met Monday and listened as its staff outlined six elements they believe should be a part of the tax-funded agency’s individual artist grant program in the future. Among the […]

In a surprising arts funding turn, the Washington DC-based National Arts Strategies, which Cuyahoga Arts and Culture had proposed to run its individual artist program, has withdrawn its proposal for that program. Cuyahoga Arts and Culture made the announcement Tuesday. From a prepared statement on CAC’s website. “In the last few days, National Arts Strategies, a potential partner for delivering fellowship support to Cuyahoga […]

Once in a while, it’s not a cliché, but simply accurate to say a proposal raises more questions than it offers answers. At its Board meeting Monday, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture rolled out a proposal for a new individual artist grant program, and that was certainly the case. The new program would replace what’s been known as the Creative […]